ACT vs. SAT: does SAT preparation transfer to ACT?

hyeonjlee
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:01:00 +0000

S2 is a HS junior. A practice test (NOT PSAT: he took it, we are waiting for the results) puts him around 1800. He was not very serious about this mock test, but still it gives us a range: we ain’t talking about something like 2200 as a realistic final outcome!!! we arranged private tutoring since his scores are very uneven: math is his weakness, and even there, it’s the geometry that is really killing him, so he needs tailored help.

I understand some kids do much better on ACT, and eventually, he may also have to try that too to see whether indeed he is one of those kids.

Question: if a kid is getting tailored help/tutoring for SAT, does the “learning” also transfer to ACT??? Or, does he need more tailored “ACT tutoring” separately?

We are shooting for SAT 2000+/2400, 1300+/1600. That will put him in a very good position to get an Army ROTC scholarship in a school that is ideal for him, given his EC profile and other things going for him.

Ah… all this is new to me: S1 is a minor genius when it comes to standardized testing. S2 complains that his older brother used up the family quota of standardized testing and math genes. But S2 is a much better looking chap - looks smoking hot in military uniform Sigh… I wish they are like play doughs - mixed them up and divide in half :(